Adaptation through genetic time travel? Fluctuating selection can drive the evolution of bacterial transformation

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1775, 2013, Pages

  Engelstädter, Jan ^a   Moradigaravand, Danesh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bacterial evolution; Environmental change; Fluctuating selection; Horizontal gene transfer; Natural transformation; Recombination

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NATURAL SELECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84888312606     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2609     Document Type: Article

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